The Face of Colonial Architecture

See the eyes and the nose.....but the mouth and the voice (with the loudspeaker below) is now Indonesian. This Dutch church is all theirs now, and the face?....well that has become part of Indonesia's cultural landscape. I like to think it adds color to the face just as trials and tribulations, no matter how terrible, add character.

Sleeping with tea in Java

October 26th 2011
Most of the time I travel alone. This past weekend it was different. With all of the teachers from my Indonesian language school in Yogyakarta and a few of my classmates we packed up and headed out for a group tour last Saturday morning at 7am or so. Our final destination for the day was Pagilaran, a tea plantation smack dab in the middle of a small mountain range on Indonesia's most populous ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more

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